Administrative Job Interview Questions And Answers

Dealing with any job that has to do with administrative duties is one that will require a lot of different responsibilities. You will often be in charge of managing and directing several things. People will look to you for leadership as well as guidance. If you are going on in administrative job interview, you need to prepare yourself for the administrative job interview questions you are going to be asked. Many of these questions are not difficult, but the answers you come up with will be important. Taking a little bit of time to study what your responses to these administrative job interview questions will be you a competitive edge.


Q. Tell me about a time in which you had to use your written communication skills in order to get an important point across.
A. You are going to be called upon a lot to get your point across to groups of people. Your ability to communicate them effectively using written communication is going to be in port attribute. Tell the person giving you the interview about a time where you demonstrated his ability to effectively. Make sure you are as detailed as possible, as this will make you look good. Also, please note that since you must have great writing skills, you should make sure your resume writing is flawless otherwise they will assume you don't have the required writing skills.


Q. When have you found verbal communications so important that you had to follow up with something that was written? Discuss a time when you had to assert yourself in order to get a point across that was important to you.
A. Verbal communication is important, but sometimes people will not always get the message the first time. If something is so extremely important it may require written communication in order to emphasize it further and in more detail. Tell the person giving you the interview about a time where you had to do this, and how you would be willing to use similar strategies if you were to get the administrative job you are applying for now. Discussing a time where you had to assert yourself should be relatively easy to explain. All it should mean is speaking up on matters at work that are important and have to be tended to.


Q. Have you have to sell in idea to your coworkers, classmates or group? How did you do it? Did they buy it?
A. Being in an administrative position will often require you to sell ideas to other people. Some of these ideas may be some that people will not agree with. This is where your ability to convince them by selling them the benefit of the idea will be important. Your ability to do this will help to solve a lot of different problems and keep things flowing smoothly. Explain to your interviewer the methods you would use to go about selling the idea. Also give them reasons why you believe your methods would be effective at convincing them if many of them are not on board with it already.

- Gail Esparan